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[ New Search ] Company Commissary Location : Carbon Hill, AL Date : Sep, 1938 Agency : WPA Credits : Pryor (Photographer) Owner : NARA (SPB) Medium : B&W Photo Control Number : RG 69-56-17481 Enlarged Image Description : Company Commissaries are crowded by miners and their families on pay day. This shot was made less than an hour after the pay off. Miners get paid daily for each day's work in script rather than money. Then on the first Saturday after the tenth of the month the mine office will redeem the scrip for cash. Nevertheless many of the miners do much of their trading at the company store. Listed Under: [Photo Series][WPA Photoessays][Carbon Hill, AL]